In the face of Western efforts to isolate North Korea, Russia has almost doubled its sales of coal and oil to Pyongyang during the first quarter of this year compared to the last quarter of 2016, delivering 26.7 million US dollars’ worth of coal and 1.2 million dollars’ worth of oil, according to Moscow’s Birzhevoy lider.

The business paper points out that, media claims notwithstanding, these sales do not violate the international sanctions regime because oil is not on the list of goods not to be sold to North Korea but does say that Pyongyang is not able to pay for these deliveries out of current accounts.

During the first quarter of this year, the paper continues, North Korea sold Russia goods totaling only 420,000 US dollars. Most of these were either musical instruments or chemical products.

Hitler could not have went to war without Soviet oil etc.,sound familiar.

veth

Sounds like an Russian deal…haha

DC Musicfreak

Brotherly criminal regimes.

rgb

No telling what The russia is sending in the cargo to nk. Sure there are some sanctioned items hiding in the cargo.

JCDavis

I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia sent hypersonic ship-killers to NK in those missile caravans of a few weeks ago. If Russia maintains ownership, it wouldn’t be an export and wouldn’t violate the sanctions.

Dirk Smith

And why does ruSSia remain on the UN Security Council? Why hasn’t the World Cup been relocated?

JCDavis

They are a permanent member. If you want an origination that only has members of the Western empire, that would be NATO.

Dirk Smith

Allowed in as a gesture of good will by the Clinton Administration, which , of course, doesn’t fit the Tambov mafia’s propaganda narrative. Destroy Muscovy.

JCDavis

They have been a permanent member since 1945. The chief victors in WW2 got permanent seats. Russia succeeded the Soviets in the SC without objection in 1991, and Bush was president at the time.

Dagwood Bumstead

Kim Jong-un doesn’t need Dwarfstan’s coal as North Korea exported coal to China until very recently. OIl is a different matter however.
As for paying for anything Dwarfstan sends, Kim will simply send more North Koreans to work off the debt to Moscow, building stadiums for the 2018 World Football Championship for instance.

JCDavis

Why is Russia shipping coal to North Korea when China stopped buying coal from them? Seems they would have an excess of coal, and would be far more in need of oil. And given their coal deposits and philosophy of self-reliance, why aren’t they converting coal to oil?

tracy

Because they are sick and tired of america blaming them for 2016 election

tracy

Wow that is how much russia hates america putin is sick and tired of the american government blaming them for stealing the 2016 election LOL putin saying to himself so you want to fuck with me huh okay I will side with you enemy North korea

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Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier he has served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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